Resident Theology

Interesting the code of FAMIT- FAMAK- FPALL. And a...

2012-04-22T22:26:29.154-04:00

Interesting the code of FAMIT- FAMAK- FPALL.
And all with DASSAULT- DISNEY- TURNER. HEINTZ- RUSH & KARL ROVE.
And to think EDWARD MEESE is that COMSTUL riding on RICK'S SETAIN' S PONY.
HORSEA.
With GUY FAWKES!
Imagine what FC PORTO's doing now?
I bet DEWORPH got a PENWASSER PLACE on ONIONST because that's what ONEYST says about COLHENDO .
And so does ROSENROT OVER YONDER.
It's that RED RIBBON ARMY going DOWNN REDPATHS.
MP3 knows.
Her PR man is THE ROCCE.

I was really great to meet you, Brad. I really enj...

2012-04-16T00:04:51.136-04:00

I was really great to meet you, Brad. I really enjoyed your paper. It's encouraging to meet like-minded people in the movement.

Let's stay in touch. I'm interested in keeping up with the good work that you are doing at Yale.

I might hit you up for a place to stay when I get to planning the northeast part of my school visits in the fall.

blessings,
Stephen
(your blog won't let me comment with my wordpress account. Just thought you should know. If you want to follow my ramblings: stephenlawson.wordpress.com)

We have the pleasure of singing this one each year...

2012-04-12T17:55:56.222-04:00

We have the pleasure of singing this one each year in our church. Was a great culmination of the palm procession we had just finished around the church.

I'll email you, Jarrod; thanks for the heads u...

2012-04-11T21:20:30.785-04:00

I'll email you, Jarrod; thanks for the heads up.

Brad, I am only 30 minutes away from Lincoln. I...

2012-04-11T09:19:24.589-04:00

Brad,

I am only 30 minutes away from Lincoln. It is where I went to undergrad and seminary. I had not planned on going to the conference, but I would love to meet up...do lunch or something.

Let me know when you have a free moment.

@Anonymous: What you've written doesn't ma...

2012-04-05T05:36:22.700-04:00

@Anonymous: What you've written doesn't make any sense. Even if everything except observable, physical facts is an illusion, how should we know it? We would need a kind of meta-fact outside of all such facts in order to guarantee that only what is not physical fact is illusory. Without this meta-fact (to bind all facts together) we only have Rosenberg's word for it.

Marilynne Robinson has a creamy intellect - I love it!

This is nonsense. This woman does not understand s...

2012-04-04T10:59:32.100-04:00

This is nonsense. This woman does not understand science. Read Alex Rosenberg for enlightenment: "the physical facts fix all the facts" Everything else is an illusion.

Thank you for this post Brad. I have felt the same...

2012-03-30T07:42:00.039-04:00

Thank you for this post Brad. I have felt the same. One of the things that I see is that we tend to study sciences under the name of Theology and that is not good. Theology understood as the study of God based on the critical study of biblical texts becomes this process of disenchantment you seem to be talking about. I don´t think Jesus did this. He proposed a better way to be enchanted.
If we could keep in mind that a scientific analysis of the Bible is not doing Theology but science, maybe we could regard Theology as art and offer Christians and the world a new word that keeps our world enchanted in keeping with the knowledge given to us by sciences.

Boom.

2012-03-30T04:45:10.551-04:00

Boom.

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2012-03-28T06:53:19.861-04:00

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A brilliant quote from St Gregory. You may be inte...

2012-03-27T13:13:58.363-04:00

A brilliant quote from St Gregory. You may be interested in some of the work my colleague and I have been doing over at Lupus-Cain. (At the forefront of our research is the question of Christ's participation in human nature, and the human participation in Christ's nature.)

lupuscain.wordpress.com

Wow...I'm going to work on it...I'll see i...

2012-03-23T04:03:53.660-04:00

Wow...I'm going to work on it...I'll see if I can come up with something... This is really fun. keep up the good work!

Brad, I am not yet apprised of the commentary of N...

2012-03-22T12:52:27.320-04:00

Brad, I am not yet apprised of the commentary of N.T. Wright, nor Richard Hays, nonetheless, I'm enormously grateful to you for this post. It causes me to think of D.B. Hart's assertion that there's no such thing as religion, but rather, Christianity, and, other religions, each of them religious communities of doctrine and belief, that are culturally unique. His view, is perhaps qualified, in an existential sense, and, there are even Catholic theologians who have suggested as much. e.g., Jacques Dupuis. However, I think that N.T. Wright, and his interpreter, Hays, may well be acquired for a productive revision of e.g. the constructs put forward in H. Richard Niebuhr's "Christ and Culture" --DWLindeman

NB: All typos in previous post are the sole respon...

2012-03-20T21:53:02.353-04:00

NB: All typos in previous post are the sole responsibility of the author, i.e. when corrected: " . . . but have yet to make it to Texas)." And: "isn't"
-) --DWLindeman

Brad: An aside: anyone who has met someone from T...

2012-03-20T21:44:45.673-04:00

Brad: An aside: anyone who has met someone from Texas catches wind of what Stanley Hauerwas means when he suggested that Texans are, dare I say, "ontologically superior" (caveat: I'm not from Texas, I'm from the East Coast; I've been to New Mexico, but have yet to make it to Texas. But, of course "ontologically superior sort of depends, by default, on where you stand. Who is'nt "ontologically superior"?, or, at least chauvinist--I think this is the American condition, especially now, and may explain a lot about the polarization of our nation at this time, otherwise known as "the culture wars". Best wishes, --DWLindeman

Yoder says some similar things about the justice s...

2012-03-08T17:03:16.020-05:00

Yoder says some similar things about the justice system in The Politics of Jesus. He basically makes the case that the checks and balances of the constitution and courts make legal proceedings fundamentally more ethical than war for Christians.

Which becomes don't kill killers which becomes...

2012-03-07T03:17:44.553-05:00

Which becomes don't kill killers which becomes life means life which becomes overcrowded prisons which becomes rapists and murderers released early which becomes breakdown of implied social contract whereby the 'state' provides security for its' citizens which becomes vigilante violence or naked rule of power which becomes oh no Mr Yoder, a Christian ethic is most definitely not a humanist ethic which at the least suggests the perfectibility of the human and a consequent over valuing of bare human life as valuable in itself which becomes both overpopulation and consumer abortions, and finally through environmental collapse and feral competition for dwindling resources that 'consummation devoutly to be wished for.' Still we all get high through living our lie, so pass me what you smoke cause I sure need a toke.

Brad, depending on the year level of your students...

2012-03-06T19:36:45.445-05:00

Brad, depending on the year level of your students, you may want to consider some of the following texts:

Bibliology:

John Webster, 'Holy Scripture: A Dogmatic Sketch'

Richard Hays, 'The Moral Vision of the New Testament'

Ecclesiology:

Jürgen Moltmann, 'The Church in the Power of the Spirit: A Contribution to Messianic Ecclesiology'

John Howard Yoder, 'A Royal Priesthood: Essays Ecclesiological and Ecumenical'

Colin E. Gunton (ed.), 'Trinity, Time, and Church'

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 'Sanctorum Communio: A Theological Study of the Sociology of the Church'

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 'Life Together'

John D. Zizioulas, 'Being As Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church'

Miroslav Volf, 'After Our Image: The Church as the Image of the Trinity'

Theological anthropology:

Alan Torrance, 'Persons in Communion: an Essay on Trinitarian Description and Human Participation'

Christoph Schwobel & Colin Gunton (eds), 'Persons, Divine and Human'

Fyodor Dostoevsky, 'Crime and Punishment'

Helmut Thielicke, 'Being Human … Becoming Human'

Pope John Paul II, 'The Theology of the Body: Human Love in the Divine Plan'

Ray S. Anderson, 'On Being Human: Essays in Theological Anthropology'

Stanley Grenz, 'The Social God and the Relational Self'

Thomas Smail, 'Like Father, Like Son'

Wolfhart Pannenberg, 'Anthropology in Theological Perspective'

And a very unusual suggestion for theological anth...

2012-03-06T16:04:26.769-05:00

And a very unusual suggestion for theological anthropology: Jim Wetzel's *Augustine and the Limits of Virtue*. Almost never included on lists of this sort, but Wetzel has profound insight into the issues you mention.

A suggestion for bibliology: Delwin Brown's *B...

2012-03-06T15:54:45.693-05:00

A suggestion for bibliology: Delwin Brown's *Boundaries of Our Habitations*. (In case it isn't obvious, I'm trying to suggest texts that aren't standardly included on such lists, but which perhaps should be.)

A must-read in ecclesiology: *Places of Redemption...

2012-03-06T15:43:06.222-05:00

A must-read in ecclesiology: *Places of Redemption* by Mary McClintock Fulkerson. Absolutely brilliant, and a harbinger of theology's next big trend: ethnographic theology.

love it!

2012-03-06T07:55:38.521-05:00

love it!

Love it...especially the last quote!

2012-03-05T21:10:20.345-05:00

Love it...especially the last quote!

(From Garrett: Beyond Foundationalism; Living and ...

2012-03-04T18:15:42.739-05:00

(From Garrett: Beyond Foundationalism; Living and Active by Telford Work.)

They're rolling for us. Whenever we want to ta...

2012-03-04T17:35:09.321-05:00

They're rolling for us. Whenever we want to take them (i.e., when we feel up to it), we go for it. Pros and cons, but definite pro: getting them over one at a time, rather than all at once.